Java has become a little bit of a nightmare to deploy and looking for answers on Google doesn’t make you much wiser since people states all kinds of things in different forums. Therefore, I’m going to make my best to clarify how it works in Java 6 (1.6.0). Previous versions (1.5.0) supported silent install switches like JAVAUPDATE=0. However I’ve been reading through the silent switches documentation for Java 1.6.0 and have been unable to find anything equivalent at all to [...]
Archive for February, 2011
On my thread about deployment on virtual hosts, someone wondered if it works on the Xen Hypervisor, the answer is… no. MDT is not able to detect XenServer as an Hypervisor. However… there’s another way get it work: Execute the following command on a server installed on a XenServer: wmic csproduct get name You will hopefully get this output on a XenServer 5.6: HVM domU If you get something else, that’s fine, just write it down, exactly as its spelled. [...]
Categories: Deployment
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 does not present any major challenges in deployment. However, here’s a short guide to how-to deploy it using silent install switches: Downloading SP1 stand alone installer will give you an ISO-file containing three relevant EXE-files with different versions of the installer: x86, x64 and ia64. Just extract the versions you need to a location of your choice. Possible silent switches for deploying SP1 stand alone [...]
Categories: Deployment, Windows
